Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:04:19 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE announcement ? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011221090330.92707F-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org>
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Nils Holland wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:28:47PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah stood up and spoke: > > > > We're in codefreeze on the RELENG_4 branch, and if you build a kernel > > from up-to-date sources, it'll say "4.5-PRERELEASE" and not > > "4.4-STABLE". From now until 4.5-RELEASE, any commits to RELENG_4 get > > reviewed by the release engineers first (with a few exceptions). > > > > murray announced this on one of the committers lists but I haven't seen > > it anywhere else. > > I didn't see it anywhere else either, which is actually kind of sad. I > guess not only the commiters on the commiters list would like to be > updated about things like this. So, I guess, for "normal people" to be > able to keep up with the events leading towards the release, wouldn't it > be a good idea to mail a copy of such announcements to a more "general" > place? -announce comes to my mind first, but if that one is only for > announcing the actual release, probably -stable should do it, as it is > highly likely that those who would like to know when the code is freezed > so that they can CVSup and test it, are most likely subscribed to > -stable. I know that announcements have also been going to the qa@FreeBSD.org list, which is the public list for release process discussion. The announcement should probably also have been CC'd to -STABLE, I'll bug Murray. :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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